Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:40:03 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk> To: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> Cc: b-tuck@gmx.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Broadcom ServerWorks HT-1000 support in OpenBSD Message-ID: <4476DB03.40802@deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <4476D7FD.2070006@gneto.com> References: <20060525153743.268850@gmx.net> <4476C3EB.30105@FreeBSD.org> <4476D7FD.2070006@gneto.com>
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Martin Nilsson wrote: > Søren Schmidt wrote: >>>>>>> It seems like OpenBSD 3.9 has support for the HT-1000 IDE/SATA >>>>>>> chipset, and we are still missing it. Is there any way to port >>>>>>> their code over? There are a few nice motherboards out there that >>>>>>> use this chipset (most amd server boards use the crappy nvidia >>>>>>> chipset and the accompanying crappy network card). > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 on boards with HT1000 chipset, both ATA and SATA > works as well under FreeBSD as it does under OpenBSD. Neither of them > supports anything else than IDE mode for SATA. Yep, they are supported as GENERIC ATA devices. > >> Hardware has arrived here and I'm working on support as time permits, >> watch -current for the commit when I'm done... > > Are you working on supporting the MMIO mode for SATA? (the one used by > Linux - which does not support IDE mode!) There is also a really nice > RAID mode (for a non HW-raid solution!) that depends on a binary blob > from Broadcom available only for Linux/Windows. I have proper PATA support done, and SATA MMIO mode is also working in a proof of concept mode here, the problem beeing lack lack of decent docs. I'll look at the RAID stuff when I have the HW support licked, it should be an easy job adding support for it to ataraid. -Søren
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